The University of Brighton has held an international reputation for design research and design studies over many decades, with innovative approaches and global success recognised across, for example, sustainable design, product design, textile design and graphic design.Postgraduate student PhD research in design at the University of Brighton is embedded within an active research community whose supervisory support extends from core design academics and practice experts to wider expertise from around the university.Through this we encourage a varied and personal approach to a postgraduate research degree in design and embrace the many ways in which design researchers can work. Experimentation, trialling, testing, considering, making... The University of Brighton will be able to support your project in many diverse ways as it evolves. The wider university provides a stimulating, creative and intellectually vibrant context for research. Our academic work in design intersects with research interests and communities across the university including those in design history, computer science, architecture and the built-environment, medicine, healthcare and ecology. Your progress towards an original contribution to knowledge through design can evolve through disciplinary and methodological support in diverse ways including, for example, product design, experimental materials, craft and decorative arts practices, textiles and fashion design, graphic and sustainable design, but could also develop through engagement with issues through which design makes a real-world difference, for example, society and politics, engineering, ecology, wellbeing or medicine.Some of our recent, successful applications for PhD study in design have included the following:Design for societyDesign futures and design thinkingSustainable designEcological design practicesPractice-based designSystems thinking, systemic design and cyberneticsDesign in community, society and governmentDesigning sustainable urban livingFashion and textiles design and fashion industry processTransforming design curationDesign methods, theory, and ethicsEducational practices in designDesign history and theory